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Starlike adj.

Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers.

Shining; bright; illustrious. "The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness."

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Etymology of 'Starlike'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Starlike" Quotes from Famous Books

... Spies oversea the fires of the mountain; When thrushes ope their throat, 't is he that sings, And he that paints the oriole's fiery wings. The little Shakspeare in the maiden's heart Makes Romeo of a plough-boy on his cart; Opens the eye to Virtue's starlike meed And gives persuasion to a ...

— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... San Antonio, Where Padua 'mid her mulberry-trees Reclines; Adige's crescent flow Beneath Verona's balconies; Rich Florence of the Medicis; Sienna's starlike streets that climb From hill to hill; Assisi well Remembering the holy spell Of rapt St. Francis; with her crown Of battlements, embossed by time, ...

— A Treasury of War Poetry - British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 • Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by George Herbert Clarke

... pulsations felt through the ponderous craft from stem to stern, as a giant breathes more powerfully when gathering his energy for the final effort of the race. A few drifting clouds moved along the sky, while, now and then, a starlike point of light, far away against the horizon, showed where some other caravansary of the sea was moving toward its ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis